121–130 of 692 posts
I remember the early days of the Silk Road market. The members posted thoughtful reviews of their orders, sometimes containing lab-tests results of the drugs they'd ordered. It was a small community whose members looked more like the Hacker News crowds than the meth heads you'd see in the news.
[edit]: My bad, now it's back!
Man, I read this as someone who tried to use opioids and I just couldn't chip. It spiraled into full blown physical dependence. I guess i'm the type with an underlying psychiatric illness which drove my usage and denial. That there exists people like this person who can chip (controlled use of opiates) always intrigues me -- as this drug was the ultimate pathway to euphoria and thus I became the mouse hitting the but…
Opioids are insanely and ~~instantly~~ quickly addictive. I accidentally became addicted after knee surgery. When the pain subsided, I stopped taking them, and within a day I found myself curled up in a ball and wanting to rip my own skin off. It's really true when addicts describe it as "being uncomfortable in your own skin". The moment I realized I was experiencing withdrawal, I flushed the meds down the toilet and…
I've been through plenty of addictions, but quitting Oxy after surgery is the closest thing to hell I've experienced so far.
This guy's whole viewpoint seems to be pinned on "it's not addiction if it's not negatively affecting the rest of your life" (yes, I know this is a major criteria for a lot of medical diagnosis, addiction included). The problem is that what it takes "negatively affect the rest of your life" depends a lot on what role you have in society. Short of pornography producer, fantasy fiction author, songwriter and other prof…
Doesn’t this bolster the argument that the principal damage from this type of drug use is social, not chemical?
>When you’re at a wedding reception, alcohol serves as a social lubricant. People are more gregarious. They talk, they interact. The same is true with cocaine at parties, heroin among friends, or opium among friends, NDMA among lovers. It enhances empathy, openness, and forgiveness, all of these pro-social attributes. Please, don't take this horrible advice. Drugs are harmful and can do fatal damage to you and those…
While slinging a cat has always been a disturbing analogy to me, in this case I think it’s appropriate; you can’t sling a cat without it hitting a popular rockstar that did heroin or similar at small or varying doses, was convinced they had it under control, and their careers slowly and then quickly tanked. I also have friends and acquaintances whose lives were ruined by it or they died early because of it. I’m glad…
Man, I read this as someone who tried to use opioids and I just couldn't chip. It spiraled into full blown physical dependence. I guess i'm the type with an underlying psychiatric illness which drove my usage and denial. That there exists people like this person who can chip (controlled use of opiates) always intrigues me -- as this drug was the ultimate pathway to euphoria and thus I became the mouse hitting the but…
Opioids are insanely and ~~instantly~~ quickly addictive. I accidentally became addicted after knee surgery. When the pain subsided, I stopped taking them, and within a day I found myself curled up in a ball and wanting to rip my own skin off. It's really true when addicts describe it as "being uncomfortable in your own skin". The moment I realized I was experiencing withdrawal, I flushed the meds down the toilet and…
> Hart strives to “present a more realistic image of the typical drug user: a responsible professional who happens to use drugs in his pursuit of happiness.” I think this is likely wrong. I guess it partly depends on the definition of a "drug user" (like, does it include alcohol drinkers) but I would be very surprised if most heroin users are responsible professionals - how can you do anything when you're high on her…
Helps them keep calm when navigating a road which has sections only marginally wider than the truck, with a 500m drop on one side.
I'm not promoting DUI (lost too many friends that way, mostly from OTHER people DUI'ing and hitting them), just saying that there are professions where the people engaged think that dulling the fear/panic response is worth the reduced reaction times.
Well, needing to use a drug is already a drug problem (addiction or not).
Do insulin users have a drug problem? I think at the core of the issue is that our society generally regards psychological ailments as a personal flaw, rather than a health issue. (I’m talking generally, not about the professor from the article)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same could be said about any experience from reading fiction, watching movies or enjoying art.
I must say I've stopped watching movies too, and reading most fiction (except at least 100 years old), after diving deeper into life. Certainly not only drugs are fake or toxic.
> One of the major reasons people can’t overcome it is because we’re not very good at treating addiction in this country. I am often wondering about how addiction "feels". I don't consider myself being addicted to anything, and always wonder how an addiction actually manifests itself. Is it a pain? Is it comparable to being extremely hungry or thirsty? Slightly related: a few years ago, I overheard a conversation bet…
It happens to me with CocaCola. I have stopped drinking it, but when I waz i the process, the cravings it gave me were crazy. I NEEDED to have a coke. Btw, in relation to the article, there was a Reddit user who ar some point wanted to "just try" this heroin thing and his message history depicts very amazingly hiw he spiraled to addiction.
This beverage has no redeeming qualities, and I want to kick off this habit.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do insulin users have a drug problem? I think at the core of the issue is that our society generally regards psychological ailments as a personal flaw, rather than a health issue. (I’m talking generally, not about the professor from the article)
> Do insulin users have a drug problem? How many insulin users lose their jobs, lose their homes, turn to acquisitive crime or prostitution to fund their insulin habit? We can talk about how many people who use heroin this happens to, and how much it's caused by current drug prohibition laws, but it's more than zero. Decriminalisation makes a lot of sense but we need to be realistic about the harm caused to about 10%…
It’s really difficult to disentangle this from the illegality of the drug.